GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |